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The day after his departure from Paris, his mount was left at Chartres, at the house of an old friend D'Artagnan had met with in an hotelier of that city. From that moment the musketeer travelled on post-horses. Thanks to this mode of locomotion, he traversed the space separating Chartres from Chateaubriand.
"Bah! you will have plenty of time, monsieur," replied the hotelier, uncorking the bottle, "the boat will not leave this hour." "But who will give me notice?" said the poet. "Your fellow-traveler," replied the host. "But I scarcely know him." "When you hear him departing, it will be time for you to go." "Is he going to Belle-Isle, likewise, then?"
The enterprising and industrious Albanian was worth a dozen of the conceited idle Montenegrins. Except Prince Nikola and the hotelier Vuke Vuletitch, it was hard to find a Montenegrin in Cetinje who used his brains if he had any.
Now when Lanyard had locked the door, he told himself that the gruesome peace of those two bed-chambers was ensured, barring mischance, for as long as the drug continued to hold dominion over the American; and he felt justified in reckoning that period apt to be tolerably protracted; while not before noon at earliest would any hotelier who knew his business permit the rest of an Anglo-Saxon guest to be disturbed lacking, that is, definite instructions to the contrary.
My chauffeur kept me waiting, but my friend the alderman was on time. Finally the motor made its appearance. Something had happened on leaving St. Paul in the morning and the poor hotelier had searched the entire city for a mechanic, but to no avail. All were au service de l'armee. Finally he had had to patch up things as best he could. As to an extra inner tube such a thing didn't exist.
It was here that General Bonaparte was staying, in rooms that had been booked a week before for my father. Although quick-tempered, my father did not say a word when the hotelier, who had been compelled to obey the orders of the municipality, came with some embarrassment to make his excuses.
"Whilst to-day," replied he, coldly, "you do not prejudge." "Monsieur, I am a well-meaning man, thank God! and simple hotelier as I am, there is in me the blood of a gentleman. My father was a servant and officer of the late Marechal d'Ancre. God rest his soul!" "I do not contest that point with you; I only wish to know, and that quickly, to what your questions tend?"
'Nay, nay, he answered, 'it is written there that it is the enjoined devoir of every hotelier to provide things fitting for the sojourners' ease, pleasure and recreation. 'The maid is locked in another house, the hostess answered, 'and should have been this three week. She swung her keys on a black riband and gazed at him masterfully. 'Will your magistership eat capon or young goat?
"Bah! you will have plenty of time, monsieur," replied the hotelier, uncorking the bottle, "the boat will not leave this hour." "But who will give me notice?" said the poet. "Your fellow-traveler," replied the host. "But I scarcely know him." "When you hear him departing, it will be time for you to go." "Is he going to Belle-Isle, likewise, then?" "Yes."
Powell's passport I am not at all certain that I succeeded in entirely convincing the hôtelier that she really was my wife. Rumania is at present passing through a period of transition. Not only have the area and population of the country been more than doubled, but the war has changed all other conditions and the new forms of national life are still unsettled.
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